Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Doug Larrick
Tom Hughes wrote: The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged thread anymore. Basically the whole scheme only worked because threads on linux are

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2005-01-09 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Larrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: The problem appears to be that the kernel now implements setuid properly so that it changes the UID of the process rather than just the current thread so it isn't possible to have a privileged

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2004-12-31 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mythfrontend owned by root and set to run suid. However,

Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2004-12-31 Thread Martin Ebourne
On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 13:01 +, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Axel Thimm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what about selinux? Did you try turning it off (selinux=0 in the kernel command line)? If that helps then having mythtv running suid will requires writing

[mythtv-users] Re: Suid root, but mythtv complains that it isn't.

2004-12-24 Thread Axel Thimm
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:04:41PM +, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brad Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mythfrontend owned by root and set to run suid. However, when i run it it reports: pthread-setschedparam: Operation not permitted